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Depth estimation from a single image is a challenging problem in computer vision because binocular disparity or motion information is absent. Whereas impressive performances have been reported in this area recently using end-to-end trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Yihong Wu , Yuwen Heng , Mahesan Niranjan , Hansung Kim

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) with self-supervised training approaches struggles in low-texture areas, where photometric losses may lead to ambiguous depth predictions. To address this, we propose a novel technique that enhances spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Marwane Hariat , Antoine Manzanera , David Filliat

Image deblurring is a fundamental and challenging low-level vision problem. Previous vision research indicates that edge structure in natural scenes is one of the most important factors to estimate the abilities of human visual perception.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Zhichao Fu , Tianlong Ma , Yingbin Zheng , Hao Ye , Jing Yang , Liang He

Monocular depth estimation is fundamental for 3D scene understanding and downstream applications. However, even under the supervised setup, it is still challenging and ill-posed due to the lack of full geometric constraints. Although a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Luigi Piccinelli , Christos Sakaridis , Fisher Yu

Depth estimation is a crucial step for image-guided intervention in robotic surgery and laparoscopic imaging system. Since per-pixel depth ground truth is difficult to acquire for laparoscopic image data, it is rarely possible to apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Baoru Huang , Jian-Qing Zheng , Anh Nguyen , Chi Xu , Ioannis Gkouzionis , Kunal Vyas , David Tuch , Stamatia Giannarou , Daniel S. Elson

Self-supervised surround-view depth estimation enables dense, low-cost 3D perception with a 360{\deg} field of view from multiple minimally overlapping images. Yet, most existing methods suffer from depth estimates that are inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Samer Abualhanud , Christian Grannemann , Max Mehltretter

Monocular depth estimators can be trained with various forms of self-supervision from binocular-stereo data to circumvent the need for high-quality laser scans or other ground-truth data. The disadvantage, however, is that the photometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Jamie Watson , Michael Firman , Gabriel J. Brostow , Daniyar Turmukhambetov

Although both self-supervised single-frame and multi-frame depth estimation methods only require unlabeled monocular videos for training, the information they leverage varies because single-frame methods mainly rely on appearance-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jie Xiang , Yun Wang , Lifeng An , Haiyang Liu , Jian Liu

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has emerged as a promising method because it does not require groundtruth depth maps during training. As an alternative for the groundtruth depth map, the photometric loss enables to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Jaehoon Choi , Dongki Jung , Donghwan Lee , Changick Kim

Monocular depth estimation (MDE), inferring pixel-level depths in single RGB images from a monocular camera, plays a crucial and pivotal role in a variety of AI applications demanding a three-dimensional (3D) topographical scene. In the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mingyu Sung , Hyeonmin Choe , Il-Min Kim , Sangseok Yun , Jae Mo Kang

Effectively measuring and modeling the reliability of a trained model is essential to the real-world deployment of monocular depth estimation (MDE) models. However, the intrinsic ill-posedness and ordinal-sensitive nature of MDE pose major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Mochu Xiang , Jing Zhang , Nick Barnes , Yuchao Dai

Monocular depth estimation has been actively studied in fields such as robot vision, autonomous driving, and 3D scene understanding. Given a sequence of color images, unsupervised learning methods based on the framework of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Songlin Wei , Guodong Chen , Wenzheng Chi , Zhenhua Wang , Lining Sun

Despite significant progress in monocular depth estimation in the wild, recent state-of-the-art methods cannot be used to recover accurate 3D scene shape due to an unknown depth shift induced by shift-invariant reconstruction losses used in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Wei Yin , Jianming Zhang , Oliver Wang , Simon Niklaus , Long Mai , Simon Chen , Chunhua Shen

Most existing algorithms for depth estimation from single monocular images need large quantities of metric groundtruth depths for supervised learning. We show that relative depth can be an informative cue for metric depth estimation and can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Yuanzhouhan Cao , Tianqi Zhao , Ke Xian , Chunhua Shen , Zhiguo Cao , Shugong Xu

Single view depth estimation models can be trained from video footage using a self-supervised end-to-end approach with view synthesis as the supervisory signal. This is achieved with a framework that predicts depth and camera motion, with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Maarten Schellevis

Monocular depth prediction is an important task in scene understanding. It aims to predict the dense depth of a single RGB image. With the development of deep learning, the performance of this task has made great improvements. However, two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Feng Xue , Junfeng Cao , Yu Zhou , Fei Sheng , Yankai Wang , Anlong Ming

Without ground truth supervision, self-supervised depth estimation can be trapped in a local minimum due to the gradient-locality issue of the photometric loss. In this paper, we present a framework to enhance depth by leveraging semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Shan Lin , Yuheng Zhi , Michael C. Yip

Monocular depth estimation in the wild inherently predicts depth up to an unknown scale. To resolve scale ambiguity issue, we present a learning algorithm that leverages monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Jaehoon Choi , Dongki Jung , Yonghan Lee , Deokhwa Kim , Dinesh Manocha , Donghwan Lee

Edge detection is a fundamental problem in different computer vision tasks. Recently, edge detection algorithms achieve satisfying improvement built upon deep learning. Although most of them report favorable evaluation scores, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Luyan Liu , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng

Despite advancements in self-supervised monocular depth estimation, challenges persist in dynamic scenarios due to the dependence on assumptions about a static world. In this paper, we present Manydepth2, to achieve precise depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Kaichen Zhou , Jia-Wang Bian , Jian-Qing Zheng , Jiaxing Zhong , Qian Xie , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham